Reasonable if you’re going to fly around the world to meet someone on the internet.

I have no idea how it turned out with any other girls he was due to meet. He arrives in Odessa, and I think the day after he went out to this far city to meet the girl.

Despite the obviousness of the situation to an outsider, it happens. This time it was even worse, but it reads almost the same.

While my memory is slightly foggy, he was around 55 years old and lived on the east coast of the United States.

He was in town because he’d met a girl on a foreign bride site, and was considering getting her a visa to come live with him.

And again, he had to take a taxi way out to her town or village outside of Odessa.

She made no efforts to see him again, repeatedly blowing him off because she was “busy” with a number of excuses. He was obviously quite upset with these developments.

For the not inconsequential sum of £3,000, the 39 men present at our induction meeting on day one have bought the chance to attend three "socials" – huge events at nightclubs where they will be in the company of hundreds of young Ukrainian women apparently looking for love.

They then have a week to go on dates with the women they encounter at the socials, meet up with those they have met online previously, and perhaps end their tour with a proposal.

Today I feel the need to share a Ukrainian bride horror story/scam that was recently pulled on an acquaintance of mine.

To give some backstory, I met this guy in July 2016 in Odessa, Ukraine.